Replicating Parts, not the Whole, to Scale
Rather than replicating “one-size-fits-all” solutions across different settings, international development innovators need to identify the core aspects they can effectively and efficiently scale up.
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Assessing Nonprofit Risk in PFS Deals
A framework to guide nonprofits in effectively assessing risk and opportunity in Pay for Success contracts.
Strategic Networking and Effective Leadership
Why strategic networking matters, and three ways to encourage new managers and other emerging leaders to do it.
The Next Great Frontier of Impact Investing
A framework to make impact investing appealing to institutional investors and accessible to international nonprofits.
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Shared Measurement and Big Data for Good
Traditional tools for evaluation and measurement fail to take into account the complexity of an interconnected and digitized world.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.